The newly opened Mushroom Museum

With the opening of the Educational Centre and the permanent exhibit space “Diversity of the World of Mushrooms” located on the city’s central square, Zagreb has got its first ever Mushroom Museum. The exhibit consisting of more than five thousand mushrooms will teach visitors about the world of fungi.

Zagreb has gained its first Mushroom Museum ever. It has been opened on the city’s central square of Ban Josip Jelačić, along with the Educational Centre – “Diversity of the World of Mushrooms”. The museum’s founders, the city of Zagreb and the Mushroom Society “Kamilo Blagaić”, followed the long-standing initiative of the scientist, agronomist and greatest authority on mushrooms in Croatia, Romano Božac, D.Sc. to open a museum cum educational facility where visitors will have the opportunity to see lyophilized – live mushrooms in their original shape and natural environment.

Besides that, the Centre will offer lectures by specialists, and mushroom gathering and lyophilisation exercises guided by experts and scientists. There will be exhibitions of mushroom specimens identified by experts, workshops and excursions for children and adults alike to teach them about the world of mushrooms and to highlight the need for conserving biodiversity…

With the opening of this museum, Zagreb has become one of the few capital cities which offer its fungi enthusiasts a place to meet and find out everything they want to know about the world of mushrooms. The museum currently features 54 sorts of mushrooms, but by the end of June, when it will open its doors to the general public, it will boast around five thousand exhibits.